On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Manuel Reimer
<manuel.s...@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> On 08/19/2014 06:58 PM, Jim Gibson wrote:
>>
>> Calling a C program from Perl can be done with the XS mechanism. XS stands
>> for eXternal Subroutine, and is the most common way to provide Perl-to-C
>> linkage. However, you may need to learn something about Perl internals.
>
>
> I know some basics about XS and I've written some small modules to get
> access to C functions that aren't available in plain Perl.
>
> I've also successfully written my own small example program that calls a
> perl script in an embedded interpreter.
>
> What I'm missing is the glue between both worlds.
>
> Is it possible to embed a perl interpreter in a C program, which itself
> defines a function "Foobar" which is declared in "foobar.h". Now I use the
> same "foobar.h" in a XS perl module to use this C interface. Is it possible
> to make my "module" interact with the function defined in the C program that
> embeds the interpreter?
>
> The idea is to somehow embed a perl interpreter into some software which
> only allows C to be used to write plugins. Those plugins are small ".so"
> files that have to use some header files which define the API. I somehow
> want to export the plugin API "into the Perl world" to make it possible to
> write plugins in Perl.
>
You might want to try the XS specific newsgroup:
lists.perl.org/list/perl-xs.html
Or, if that group "hat den Loeffel abgegeben",
perlmonks.org
HTH,
Charles DeRykus
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